Stakeholders of the APC in Imo State have petitioned the national leadership of the party protesting the alleged emergence of a parallel state executive in the state loyal to Governor Rochas Okorocha.
A faction of the party led by Governor Okorocha had conducted its own ward, local government and state congresses where an aide of Chief of Staff to the governor, Mr. Daniel Nwafor, was elected chairman.
But the stakeholders also known as ‘Allied Force’ contended in the petition that the appeal filed against holding fresh congresses had been served to the APC leadership at all levels.
The governor’s faction had relied on a July 6 judgement of a Federal High Court in Owerri which quashed the congresses held in the state that favoured the deputy governor, some members of the National Assembly and other stakeholders.
A letter addressed to the Oshiomhole-led APC which was signed by K. C. Nwufo (SAN), on behalf of APC stakeholders in the state, warned that it would be contemptuous of the court for any congress to be held in Imo State or appointing any caretaker committee during the pendency of a motion on notice for interlocutory injunction of the appeal against the judgement in suit No. FHC/OW/CS/69/2018.
